Have you heard of this “Decemberists” band?

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A Star Is Born
35 A Star is Born is like a Serbian episode of MTV’s Made.
Vanja Kovacevic, who wrote, directed, edited and produced this
documentary, wants to become a drummer. The Decemberists ar
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Jumping the Broom
45 From the opening marriage proposal backed by the world’s creepiest piano player, there’s something a little off-putting about Jumping the Broom,
the new wedding dramedy
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The NW Film Center’s annual music-documentary fest expands across town this week. Here are two standouts: Search and Destroy: Iggy Pop and the Stooges’ Raw Power79 Could be the fact that I ...
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Aaron Mesh’s Top 10The conventional wisdom says 2010 was a bad year for good movies, and the clever retort is it was a good year for movies that made us feel bad—but really, the year&rsquo ...
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Made in Oregon. Made for Oregon. Made about Oregon.

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(Left) Dead Hooker In A Trunk (Top Right) Shot On Blood (Bottom Right) The Adults In The RoomIn a town up to its elbows in highly specialized film festivals (want to see a movie about a zombie riding ...
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They pull us back in.

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Wipeout! (Il Boss)The argument that Quentin Tarantino is little more than a frighteningly talented pasticheur gets a boost from the first 10 minutes of Fernando Di Leo’s 1973 Mob thriller, which ...
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QDoc gives ’em hope—and lesbian yodeling.

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QDoc is angry. By far the best LGBTQ film festival in town (and the only lesbian and gay documentary festival in the nation), the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival returns for its fourth year w ...
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POW Fest packs a womanly punch.

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The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival is in its third year, but it really shattered its own glass ceiling last July, when it scored a benefit screening of The Hurt Locker with Kathryn Bigelo ...
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